Reporters without Borders

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Today, CPJ partnered with Reporters
Without Borders and Rory Peck Trust
in a joint open
letter calling on Kenya's Cabinet Secretary of Interior, Joseph Ole Lenku,
to provide clarity on the government's refugee policy and to exempt journalists
from forced relocation to the refugee camps. On March 25, Lenku ordered
all urban refugees to relocate to one of two refugee camps in a bid to tighten
security amid continuing violence, including an attack on a church in
Mombasa. His order came despite the fact that a similar government directive in
2012 was ruled unconstitutional
by the High Court.

New
York, March 13, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by
threats made against Balbina Flores Martínez, Mexico correspondent for the international
press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders. On Wednesday, Flores
received a series of telephone calls in which she was told that someone had
been hired to "harm her," according to news reports.

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Today, the Committee to Protect Journalists joined other
leading international media freedom and human rights organizations, including
Article 19, Index on Censorship, and Reporters Without Borders, in calling on
the European Union and United States to demand Egyptian authorities drop charges
against Al-Jazeera journalists and release those under arrest.

During a meeting with CPJ, and representatives from Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders at the president's
executive office in Montevideo, the political capital, the former member of the
leftist guerrilla group Tupamaros reflected on the upcoming congressional
debate over new broadcast legislation. "It is our duty to ensure universal
access to radio and television and contribute to freedom of information,"
Mujica added.

A new English/Arabic online tool is available for citizen
journalists who have no previous journalism experience or training but are
reporting dangerous frontline stories. It uses animation--a novelty for such
guides--and its arrival is timely.

The
government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is quick to brand critics as
"terrorists," and that's one of the main reasons that Turkey was the world's
worst jailer of the press when CPJ conducted its recent census
of imprisoned journalists. This week, the prime minister and two pro-government
newspapers applied the label once again to critics, illustrating the extremely
difficult climate confronting any Turkish journalist who challenges official
positions.

A small number of journalists reporting from Syria have
recently interviewed prisoners of war under highly coercive circumstances. In
doing so, they have ignored the protections that are due to prisoners under
international humanitarian law, or IHL.

Stop the bleeding. It's a critical and
fundamental step in aiding a journalist or anyone wounded in conflict. Hemorrhage
is the number one preventable death on the battlefield. And yet large numbers
of journalists covering wars and political unrest all across the world are
untrained in this life-saving skill. It doesn't need to be that way.